Co-hosted with the Institute for Health and Social Policy
Thursday, May 17, 2007
The Omni Hotel
This conference brought together outstanding educators and scientists to address the challenge of developing interdisciplinary research and educational programs in social and global health, and included both state-of-the-art presentations and facilitated discussions.
We had an exciting group of participants, including keynote presentations by Dr. Allan Ronald, an internationally recognized award-winning HIV/AIDS researcher from the University of Manitoba and Dr. Carolyn Bennett, M.P. and former Minister of State for Public Health for Canada. Participants also included leading researchers and educators from 成人VR视频 and Canada representing the disciplines of environmental sciences, education, law, medicine and the social sciences.
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Panel 1: New Paradigms and Challenges in Global Heath: From Basic Science to Social Science
Wet-Lab Science in Under-Resourced Settings [.pdf]
Dr. Brian Ward
Social Surveys in Low-resource Settings: Making Research Work [.pdf]
Dr. Shelley Clark
Globalization's Challenges to Health Research [.pdf]
Click here [.pdf] for presentation notes.
Dr. Ron Labonte
Panel 2: The Challenges of Interdisciplinary Teaching in Silo Settings
Interdisciplinary Teaching: Moving Beyond the Comfort Zone [.pdf]
Dr. Cynthia Weston
Bridging Health and the Humanities in the Classroom
Dr. Myron Echenberg
Creating Graduate Programs that Transcend Disciplines [.pdf]
Dr. Marilyn Scott
Panel 3: New Tools for Global Health Medical
Medical Informatics & Artificial Intelligence in Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) [.pdf]
Dr. Christos Tsoukas
Beyond Paperchase: Library Resources for Global Health & Social Policy [.pdf]
Deborah Meert
Keynote
Building Capacity: Lessons from the Trenches [.pdf]
Dr. Allan Ronald
Panel 4: Developing a research agenda for population health
National Research Priorities in Population and Public Health [.pdf]
Dr. John Frank
Interdisciplinarity in Population Health Research and Teaching [.pdf]
Dr. Nancy Ross
Working with Communities to Develop Research Agendas [.pdf]
Dr. Harriet Kuhnlein
Panel 5: Research to Action: Connecting Social and Global
HIV Drug Resistnace: Implications for Prevention and Therapy [.pdf]
Dr. Mark Wainberg
Policymakers and Researchers: Connecting Two Different Worlds [.pdf]
Dr. Jody Heymann
Legal Research as an International Development Tool [.pdf]
Dr. Maya Prabhu
Keynote
Health vs. Health Care: Putting the 'Public' Back into Public Health [.pdf]
The Honourable, Dr. Carolyn Bennett
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